Leap of faith
We all arrived at this point in diverse circumstances. One thing some of us may share though is the fact that at a certain point our safe world seemingly ceased to be safe, familiar structures became less supportive, we seemed to be running out of luck.
You will note that these seemingly disagreeable occurrences becames more and more frequent as you persist to resolve problems in your life using familiar structures, acquaintances. relatives, friends. Nothing seems to work for you. That’s not true. Everything is working fine for you, it is the way forward that is wrong.
Remember all the difficult time you’ve had in your life and how you dealt with them. You’ll agree that none amongst us would enjoy going through one of those time again, even though, when we think back, we could be saying to ourselves “some good came out of it” or “i’m more mature because of that experience”. But in reality, we would have prefered to learn the lesson in a more pleasant manner. The fear we experienced at the occurrence of a particular event does not shade off over time, it lodges itself in our subconscious mind and acts as a defence mechanism. But the defence style in this case is to cling on to familiar structures that supported us in the past or avoid similar situations altogether.
When we talk about leap of faith, we tend to understand that we place our trust in something higher than us and go on to proceed blindly into something new and unfamiliar. Well, yes, we do place our trust into something higher than us, but the meaning of leap of faith is not limited to that only, in fact that part is the easy one, what complements it and allows that faith to yield manifestation is something we are responsible for – we need to let go of our fears.
The difficulty is that we are not talking of the fears that lies in our conscious mind, but rather the fear that lies in the unconscious mind and which is tightly associated to the structures of our life.
How do we do this then?
Follow these recommendations:
- Take stock of your life – this will help you identify when the fear factor has been more acute in your life
- Recognise that all events in your life, prior to when the need for change was realised, was a necessity to enable you incorporate important lessons into your life. How it happened, why it happened, whether you were right or wrong, is of no consequence here. You have to let go and move forward anew, just like a snake dropping its skin and moving on.
- Learn how to be happy with yourself. It is important that your happiness does not rest into another’s actions or reactions. Do not allow others to make you angry nor happy
- During your daily affirmations make an intention to proceed into the unknown whilst being aware that better is coming to you, BUT affirm to yourself that you cannot foresee the form it will take at present and ask that all be revealed in the right time
- Make time for your daily meditation. 30 minutes, where you will sink into tranquility until the way forward is revealed to you (note that each attempt to force things will only set you back)
- Enjoy the simplicity of the now
Releasing dependency on others, especially emotional dependency begets freedom. It is that freedom which will take away all fears.
Doing the above on a daily basis gradually leads to a state where one is satisfied with its current condition, new hobbies and passion will reveal themselves, new groups may be joined. A word of warning here, if you do join new groups of people, do not be dependent on them to fill a void in your life, it should rather be a way for you to observe different individuals in an unprejudiced manner and without any expectation. Same as if you were observing birds, ants, or whatever.
The above recommendations is not aimed at precipitating matters, but rather preventing consequent delays.
The truth can only unfold once the mind is at rest. The primordial step is to get the mind at rest.
A leap of faith starts with us having faith in ourselves, our capacity to be on our own and feel the ecstasy of experiencing life.
These are preambles which sets the foundations for compassion and empathy. Spiritual Laws can only be approached in two ways, either you are touched by the Divine like Saints/ Prophets, OR, you are meant to seek it. And the muscle you will use the most here is your beloved heart, hence the importance of compassion and empathy.
Good day(night) to you all and …..have faith.
